London - Al Qaida has urged Muslims to torch forests as part of the Islamic war against the West.

Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has called on followers to set fires in forests in enemy states as part of what the network termed holy war.

AQAP, deemed the greatest threat to the United States, has also provided instructions on how to easily and rapidly destroy forests.

"Imagine that, after all the damage is caused, if a jihad organization were to take responsibility for the forest fires," Al Qaida said. "You can imagine the dread it would cause people in the United States, Europe, Russia, and Australia."

In the latest issue of Inspire magazine, AQAP explained how Muslims can assemble firebombs and other weapons to torch forests. The Al Qaida magazine argued that forest fires are supported by the Koran as legitimate means of Islamic warfare.

AQAP's main target has been the United States. In 2003, the FBI reported the arrest of a suspected Al Qaida operative accused of planning a series of forest fires. In January, Al Qaida claimed responsibility for a forest fire in the U.S. state of Nevada.

Israel has suspected that a series of forest fires in 2012 might be linked to Al Qaida supporters. An Al Qaida-aligned cell called Masadat Al Mujahadeen in Palestine, said commanded by Abu Amar Al Ansari, took responsibility for recent arsons in the Jewish state.

Comment: One wonders why the CIA have gone to such ridiculous lengths to 'explain' the forest fires raging across parts of the US, particularly in Colorado where a meteor may have played role:

Reader Comments

Are these Jihadists to blame for the lack of rain as well? Guess they've been reading 'Dune' and know the power of water in a dry land. Perhaps these Jihadists are to blame for the lack of federal planes to fight the fire as well. I wonder if there is any problem in the world they aren't responsible for?

Has played their part in the last hundred years... With a fundamentalist fanaticism they've been stopping every small fire on every acre of wilderness for decades, resulting in diseased, dying, forest tinderboxes. Pine beetles have colonized the entire Rocky Mountain range thanks to an overabundance of would-normally-be-burned flora, and anyone who has seen these forests in the last ten years has surely noticed enormous tracts of dead pines standing, waiting to go up in flames. Forests need to burn to maintain healthy and balanced ecosystems. Probably not unlike planets needing meteorites...

Although a bit tangential, IMO the recent article about missing persons in national parks resonates with this Colorado wildfire storyline. I looked into the linked website in that article last night and had some serious chills running down my spine...